Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haile Gebrselassie

I find the business world hard.

Haile Selassie

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

Gustav Heinemann

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Gunter Grass

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Graham Taylor

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Graham Nash

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

Jim Butcher

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Jim Butcher

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Jessica Alba

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

H. P. Lovecraft

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

H. P. Lovecraft

All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. G. Wells

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

H. G. Wells

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

H. G. Wells

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…

H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Jean Baudrillard

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Jean Baudrillard

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Jay Paterno

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Jay Carney

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Jasper Johns

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Christopher Hitchens

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Murray Gell-Mann

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Muriel Rukeyser

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

Moby

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

Moby

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Moby

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Moby

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

Mindy Kaling

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

Krysten Ritter

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.